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Welcome to The Newsletter of Alva Noto, Carsten Nicolai, and NOTON — July 2022 #2

New Releases

N-052 . Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto . Insen (reMASTER)

  • Format: CD, Vinyl, Digital
  • Release Date: 29 July 2022

Originally released in 2005, Insen is the second collaboration album between Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto and the second installment of V.I.R.U.S.'s five albums series.

Remastered in 2021 in collaboration with Calyx Studio, the album's recordings are accompanied by an unreleased composition titled Barco. Initially composed for Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto's 2005 Insen tour, the audio material used in this piece is based on the subtle sounds of Barco projectors, whose tonalities served as a ground for the artists' live improvisation.

In Insen, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto explore the potential for interaction and tension between electronic and acoustic instrumentation. Across eight compositions, the echoes of the cascading piano combine, collide, and dissolve with the tapestry of digital breakages in sheer vibrancy. This relationship lies at the album's core. It subtly continues Vrioon's calm melancholia, becoming a vessel for all the emotions and memories nourished by the listener. As you hear the opening, lonesome notes of Aurora, you realize that the pair have once again conceded an ambition to embed elaborate disciplines into an archetypal sound of soul-searching beauty.

Album art designed by Carsten Nicolai
Mastering by Bo @ Calyx

Tracklist

  • 1. Aurora
  • 2. Morning
  • 3. Logic Moon
  • 4. Moon
  • 5. Berlin
  • 6. Iano
  • 7. Avaol
  • 8. Barco

About the V.I.R.U.S. box:

  • The V.I.R.U.S. box will be available in fall 2022. It will be released as a paper design slipcase without the albums inside and is designed to accommodate the five V.I.R.U.S. albums on vinyl (four double LPs and one LP) and CD (five units).

Vinyl

  • Price: 25 EUR (excl. VAT)
  • 2 × 12 Inch 'Black' Vinyl, 33.3 rpm, MP3 Download

CD

  • Price: 18 EUR (excl. VAT)
  • 1 × Compact Disc, Special Folding Cover, MP3 Download

Re-Stock

N-056 . Alva Noto . HYbr:ID I

  • Format: CD, Vinyl, Digital
  • Release Date: 12 November 2021

Vinyl is available again on

» NOTON SHOP

Current Exhibitions

Carsten Nicolai . Transmitter / Receiver – The Machine and The Gardener

Solo Exhibition @ Haus der Kunst

  • 03 June 2022 - 17 July 2022
  • Haus der Kunst
  • Prinzregentenstraße 1, 80538 Munich, DE

Carsten Nicolai . Nebelkammer

Group Exhibition @ Kunsthalle Mainz

  • 10 June 2022 - 25 September 2022
  • Kunsthalle Mainz
  • Am Zollhafen 3–5, 55118 Mainz, DE

Carsten Nicolai . Fire Organ

@ Feuerorgel-Kapelle-Krobitz

  • Opened Day: 03 July, 07 August, 04 & 11 September 2022
  • Feuerorgel-Kapelle-Krobitz
  • 07806 Weira, DE

Carsten Nicolai . Fades & Chroma Wellenform

@ Collections of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2022

  • 30 July - 04 September 2022 (Except Tue & Wed)
  • 05 Sept - 13 Nov 2022 (only Weekends & Holidays)
  • Yukihisa Isobe Memorial Echigo-tsumari Kiyotsu Soko Museum of Art
  • 1528-2 Kakuma, Tokamachi-city, Niigata, JAPAN

Playlists

Spotify

WORSHIP THE GLITCH

Alva Noto's Artist Pick

Spotify

PIANO PUR

Alva Noto's Artist Pick

Spotify

RAW MINIMAL TECHNO

Alva Noto's Artist Pick

Spotify

Alva Noto

NOTON Playlist

NOTON Releases

N-051

Vrioon (reMASTER)

Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto

CD, Vinyl, Digital

N+002

WYGG [While Your Guitar Gently]

COH

CD, Digital

N-056

HYbr:ID I

Alva Noto

CD, Vinyl, Digital

N+001

IVIC

Saele Valese

CD, Vinyl, Digital

N-049

Xerrox Vol. 4

Alva Noto

CD, Vinyl, Digital

N-048

A Forest

Alva Noto

Vinyl, Digital

N-047

Alphabet

Alva Noto + Anne-James Chaton

CD, Digital

N-046

Two

Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto

CD, Vinyl, Digital

N-045R

UNIEQAV Remixes

Alva Noto

Digital

N-045V

UNIEQAV Videos

Alva Noto

Digital

N-045

UNIEQAV

Alva Noto

CD, Vinyl, Digital

N-044

Glass

Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto

CD, Vinyl, Digital

N-043

Live 2002

Mika Vainio + Ryoji Ikeda + Alva Noto

CD, Vinyl, Digital